Christmas Winps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Pale mahogany core, wide pale mahogany rim. Nose is discreet, soil, spice, underlying dried red fruit. palate is quite stern, medium bodied, spice, earth, dried red fruit, lean slightly drying medium/good length finish. Old-fashioned, better with food.
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After the performance of the Combe d'Orveau, I couldn't resist the opportunity to check in on this one. Right out of the gate it seemed to promise similar excitement with a pungent aroma right from the pop of the cork. But it took awhile to get going on the palate, seeming a bit thin and listless in the fashion of the closed performance of many a '96 over the years. Fortunately, it began to sweeten up considerably after about an hour, developing the kind of sticky, savory palate presence that you usually need to wait longer for -- just like the Combe d'Orveau, albeit with a more blackish complexion. And yet it seemed lacking in comparison to the Combe d'Orveau. I think the problem is that the material here is the perfect base for a beautiful wine but it doesn't show much of interest on top of that base, whereas the Chambolle did. Certainly there isn't much in the way of terroir identity; it's sophisticated enough that you'd have to figure it for a respectable place in the hierarchy, but not individual enough that you'd ever be able to pinpoint from where. I feel guilty not enjoying it more because the underlying material really is beautiful, it just didn't have enough personality to hold my interest through the evening. Hopefully a few more years will reveal some character.
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12/19/2019 - Paul D wrote: 87 Points
Christmas Winps (La Trompette, Chiswick): Pale mahogany core, wide pale mahogany rim. Nose is discreet, soil, spice, underlying dried red fruit. palate is quite stern, medium bodied, spice, earth, dried red fruit, lean slightly drying medium/good length finish. Old-fashioned, better with food.
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6/21/2019 - Rupert wrote:
Solstice lunch (Gezellig, Holborn, London): Pale, some earthiness at the start, perfumed, cherry fruit, lean
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5/28/2017 - Keith Levenberg wrote: flawed
Cooked
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12/15/2016 - Paul D wrote:
Christmas WIMPS - Burgundy I (La Trompette, Chiswick): A touch closed, earth, smoke, quite dark fruited, tannins resolved, spice, good but perhaps a touch flat on the finish. ***(?)
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6/12/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points
After the performance of the Combe d'Orveau, I couldn't resist the opportunity to check in on this one. Right out of the gate it seemed to promise similar excitement with a pungent aroma right from the pop of the cork. But it took awhile to get going on the palate, seeming a bit thin and listless in the fashion of the closed performance of many a '96 over the years. Fortunately, it began to sweeten up considerably after about an hour, developing the kind of sticky, savory palate presence that you usually need to wait longer for -- just like the Combe d'Orveau, albeit with a more blackish complexion. And yet it seemed lacking in comparison to the Combe d'Orveau. I think the problem is that the material here is the perfect base for a beautiful wine but it doesn't show much of interest on top of that base, whereas the Chambolle did. Certainly there isn't much in the way of terroir identity; it's sophisticated enough that you'd have to figure it for a respectable place in the hierarchy, but not individual enough that you'd ever be able to pinpoint from where. I feel guilty not enjoying it more because the underlying material really is beautiful, it just didn't have enough personality to hold my interest through the evening. Hopefully a few more years will reveal some character.
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